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Sirgiorgio Clardy sits strapped into a restraint chair in July during his sentencing hearing. His legal adviser, sits in the foreground -- a safe distance away from Clardy based on the advice of a judge. Nine courthouse deputies attended the sentencing to maintain security.
(Aimee Green/The Oregonian)

Readers have had plenty to say aboutthe story of a Portland pimp who filed a $100 million lawsuit against Nike, claiming the shoe manufacturer is partially to blame for a savage beating that helped net the pimp a 100-year prison sentence.

In a three-page lawsuit handwritten from prison, Sirgiorgio Clardy argues that Nike should have affixed a label in his Jordan shoes warning consumers that they could be used as a "dangerous weapon." Clardy was wearing a pair when he repeatedly stomped the face of a john who was trying to leave a Portland hotel without paying Clardy's prostitute in June 2012.

In July 2013, Clardy was convicted of second-degree assault and robbery of the john, who suffered vision problems, required stitches and underwent plastic surgery on his nose. Clardy also was found guilty of robbing the john and beating the 18-year-old woman he forced to work as his prostitute. She was injured so badly that she bled from her ears.

The john was convicted of the misdemeanor crime, under Portland city code, of patronizing a prostitute. He was sentenced to five days in jail. ...I don't believe that he raped or sexually assaulted the young woman -- at least I remember hearing nothing about that during trial or sentencing. And he wasn't charged with any of those crimes.

And finally, a few readers got angry at The Oregonian for publishing a story about an inmate's rants: